According to The Independent, The “Savino law” will attempt to “stigmatise the reckless and dangerous eating behaviour imposed by parents” who pursue a vegan diet, “to the detriment of minors”.

Under the conditions for the law, a member of parliament wrote, “For some years the belief has been spreading in Italy that a vegetarian diet, even in the rigid form of a vegan diet, results in significant health benefits.”

Children are a parents responsibility, they don’t ’co-parent ’with the government. The Italian government should stay out of it. If a child is not thriving for whatever reason, there are ways to intervene if necessary with out the hand of big government making it illegal to feed your kid the way you see fit.

Not enough info in this article to make an informed comment…but what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander…
Vegans are living an unhealthy lifestyle as far as I know, based on medical science and common sense – that’s their choice, as is my choice to eat meat, or not get vaccinated, or drink cheap whiskey, or take my children to church, etc.
When children are involved – that changes things…but, see proverb above…the state doesn’t need any more power over us than it already has!
To paraphrase a famous philosopher…“Mmmmm, roast goose.”

An article in the National Geographic some time ago made the claim that the relatively rapid expansion of the human brain was the direct result of adding meat to our diet. The reason is that a massive input of protein in one meal as opposed to much time spent gathering and consuming low protein content plants allowed us to spend much more time using our brains for other stuff. If you happen to believe in deep time macro-evolution I guess that would make sense.

Robert if you have the time watch this …https://youtu.be/3JUFmEfkgME
Its a movie called “FatHead” which compliments a lot of what you said in your post.
Scary stuff, really. People have been manipulated historically. Not that that’s an epiphany, though.

Vegans and vegetarians are fighting against several million years of evolution . If you go back far enough to a time when early man may have had a entirely vegetarian diet , you are no longer talking about early man such as homo habilius , you are talking about a mammal still comfortable with climbing in trees. When early man developed the taste for meat he became a predator and no longer a defenseless target for carnivores. Changing climates and oncoming ice age showed that a larger diet in animals was needed in order to survive. Using his big mammalian brain he devised ways to rise to the top of the food chain.Without that taste for meat he would still be running through the forests and jungles screaming while trying to get away from a predator. His culture would also not be anywhere near as developed as he is today.
Vegetarians and vegans are pursuing an ideology that is based on fantasy and not reality.